FrameThrower · Actors · Walter Pidgeon
Walter Pidgeon
3 films · 279 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1936–1968
Born 22 September 1897 · Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada · died 25 September 1984
Walter Davis Pidgeon was a Canadian actor who lived most of his adult life in the United States. He starred in many motion pictures, including Mrs. Miniver, The Bad and the Beautiful, Forbidden Planet, Advise and Consent and Funny Girl.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 279 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1936–1968
- Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 279 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Walter takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 43% of their frames are night — the look of the work Walter takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 279 frames from Walter Pidgeon's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.